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HCL Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
This guide provides information on using HCL Domino Designer and programming language reference information.
What's new in HCL Domino Designer 11 for developers?
The following features are new for developers in HCL Domino® Designer 11.
What's new for developers in Domino 11.0?
The following features are new in HCL Domino Designer 11.0.
Domino® Query Language enhancements
Domino® Query Language (DQL) provides the following enhancements in Domino 11:

HCL Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
This guide provides information on using HCL Domino Designer and programming language reference information.
- What's new in HCL Domino Designer 11 for developers?
  The following features are new for developers in HCL Domino® Designer 11.
  - What's new for developers in Domino® 11.0.1?
    The following features for developers are new in HCL Domino® 11.0.1.
  - What's new for developers in Domino 11.0?
    The following features are new in HCL Domino Designer 11.0.
    - New properties in Designer to support HCL Nomad
      New properties are available in Domino® Designer to support applications that are used with the mobile client HCL Nomad. These features are supported as of Nomad for iOS 1.0.6 and Nomad for Android 1.0.
    - New NotesGPS LotusScript® classes
      The following new NotesGPS LotusScript® classes are available. They are currently supported for HCL Nomad beginning with Release 1.0.4.
    - New methods for NotesJSONArray LotusScript® class
      The following new methods are available for the NotesJSONArray LotusScript® class.
    - New methods for NotesJSONNavigator LotusScript® class
      The following new methods are available for the NotesJSONNavigator LotusScript® class.
    - New methods for NotesJSONObject LotusScript® class
      The following new methods are available for the NotesJSONObject LotusScript® class.
    - New properties and methods for NotesDominoQuery LotusScript® class
      The following new properties and methods are available for the NotesDominoQuery LotusScript® class.
    - New methods for DominoQuery Java class
      The following new methods are available for the DominoQuery Java class.
    - New properties for NotesViewColumn class
      The following new properties for the NotesViewColumn LotusScript class related to Domino Query Language are available.
    - Domino® Query Language enhancements
      Domino® Query Language (DQL) provides the following enhancements in Domino 11:
- Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- Application Design
  Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Application Management
  Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Domino® Query Language
  Domino® Query Language (DQL) is a facility running on a Domino server that provides a terse, shorthand syntax for finding documents. It supports a wide variety and complexity of search terms. It leverages existing design elements, avoiding the need to write detailed code to access them. DQL consolidates all methods in Domino for searching document contents.
- Composite Applications - Design and Management
  Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and contextual collaboration strategy. The ability to create and edit composite applications lets you easily integrate different types of components and technologies.
- DB2® Access views
  Domino® Designer includes two types of design elements to assist you in managing data contained in DB2® enabled Notes® databases:
- Programming Overview and User Interface
  This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.
- Formula Language
  This section documents the formula language.
- LotusScript® Language
  Welcome to the LotusScript® Language section of Domino® Designer Help.
- LotusScript/COM/OLE Classes
- Java/CORBA Classes
  This section documents the Java/CORBA classes.
- Connectors
  Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.
- Javadoc™ for Domino® Designer related APIs
  As part of providing additional Java™ reference documentation, Domino® Designer ships with a help plugin that contains Javadoc™ for additional Domino Designer related APIs.

Domino® Query Language enhancements

Domino® Query Language (DQL) provides the following enhancements in Domino® 11:

The design catalog is now maintained within hidden views of the individual databases against which queries are processed. Previously, a separate database, GQFdsgn.cat, stored and maintained design elements for multiple databases. New updall command flags, -e and -d, are used to add and update the design catalogs.
The ability to do DQL processing against full text indexes has been added. This is typically the fastest DQL processing method. The new contains operator is used to query full text indexes.
DQL processing of views is significantly faster.

The Domino Query Language (DQL) documentation is moved to the Domino Designer documentation for Domino 11. For more information, see Domino Query Language.